Improved clothes-wringer



` UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

OLIVER D. BARRETT, OF. FULTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELE AND STEPHENE. LANPHEAR, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

INIPROVED CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,41 l, dated October 1,1861.

.To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER D. BARRErLot Fulton, in the county of Oswegoand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inOlothes-Vringers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is asideelevation, and Fig. 2 an end elevation, in which figures the sameletters indicate the same parts ofthe wringer.

The frame 0f the wringer consists of a bedpiece A, to each end of whichis attached two uprights B B B B, across the tops ot' which are placedtwo pieces OC, as represented in the drawings. These pieces B B B B andO O,in addition to forming part of the frame, serve as springs, and aremade to eX- ert their pressure on the rollers D D by means of the screwE. The pieces B B B B also furnish bearings for the rollers D D, andthey extend below the bed-piece A, and thus adapt the wringer to beingplaced on the edge of the wash-tub when operated. The rollers D D areplaced one a little above the other, so that their pressure uponeachother is oblique, thus pressing the clothes harder while passingthrough between them than they would were their pressure direct uponeach other.

What I claim as 'my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The arrangement of the springs B B B B and C O in combination with therollers` D D and the screw E, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

OLIVER D. BARRETT. Witnesses:

J. E. FoRBUsH. JAMES MoRRow.

